A bug in the matrix or just the radar? This is no normal cloud-shape, is it?
looks a bit like convective cells to me! they happen in summer (as long as there is sufficient surface heating to drive the convection) - they’re like bubbles in boiling water.
It looks like you’ve got high pressure over there though… the high pressure may just limit the cloud heights and intensity of the precipitation?
Edit: these look a little too big to be pop-up cells, but they still look more convective (instead of frontal). a bit suspiciously too round, though. Do they stay consistent and track across the sky, or are they more bubble-like?
2nd edit: looks like I’m wrong and it is a radar artefact :) (this is why looking at radar timelapses is more important than just single-frames!)
3rd edit: it’s not an artefact, it’s a real signal! it’s insects!
what a roller coaster, and the ominous unexplained insect edit is a cherryon top
aha here’s a full explanation of the thought process:
- no other weather report matches these patterns
- they’re suspiciously round and not blobby like real clouds
- they’re each suspiciously localised around the radars in the network
- there are lots of types of radar artefacts, including close-to-radar ground-clutter (this is what I assumed it was) but it’s too consistent and large of a signal for that
- so it must be something uniform, in the air instead of on the ground, that isn’t rain
- bugs are about the size of a big rain drop! enough to be picked up as a strong signal by the radar and enough to prevent the radar from seeing long distances
- It’s also been flying-ant-day recently across Europe
